Boot or shoe



(No Model.)

F. M. HOYT.

BOOT OR SHOE.

No. 308374, Patented Nov. 18,1384.

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U ITED STATES PATENT- Orrrca FRA-NOIS MOODY HOYT, OF HAVERHILL, MASSACHUSETTS.

BOOT OR S-HOE.

SPECIPICATION f orming part of Letters Patent No. 308,074-, dated November 18, 1884.

' Application filed September 6. 1884. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANOIS MOODY HOYT, of Haverhill, in the county of EsseX, of the Oommonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Boots'or Shoes; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specifieation and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which Figure 1 is a transverse section of. a sole as cut in and parallel to its edge in accordance with my invention, and for being stitched 'to an upper. Fig. 2 is a transverse section of a sole with the parts or lips above the outs turned up for supporting and fastening the sole to an upper. Fig. 3 is a transverse section of the sole and the upper as stitchedtogether, wrong sides outw'ard, preparatory to the two being turned right sides outward. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section of the shoe, showing my improvement.

The nature of my invention is defined in the claims hereinafter presented, such invention being applicable to a boot as well as to a shoe.

In preparing the 'sole for connection to the upper of the shoe or boot I make in the sole, from its upper edge at an aeute angle or an inclination downward to its upper surface, a

` cut, as shown at a in Fig. l, such cut being eontinued entirely around the sole. Next, at a shortdistanee froni such edge, I make in the sole from its upper surface another inclined cut, as shown at b, it being at an acute angle to the upper surface and inclining toward the edge cut, and going entirely around the sole in parallelism-with and a short distance from the first cut, at the bottoms of the two. Having done this, I turn upward, as shown in Fig. 2, both of the paris directly above the outs, so as to form lips c d, as shown in such figure, each of which is triangular in itstransverse section. Next I apply the upper Wrong side outward to the sole, so as to encompass it and abut closely against the outer lip, and I stitch together the said upper and sole by thread g, sewed through the upper and the two lips at their bases. Having done this, I close down lose no part of the sole in making an abutment for the upper to bear against, and I thereby form a better, larger, and stronger abutment than would be the case were I to rabbet the sole at'and around its edge.

I do not claim a shoe-sole having along the outer edge a part of such sole removed from the rest so as to form a rabbet or groove in and about the sole at such edge, such sole having also in it, back of and parallel to such rabbet, a lip turned up from the sole; nor do I claim a sole cut in its edge in parallelism with one side of the sole and having the part above the cut turned up at right angles, or thereabout, to the sole, such being for connecting an upper to the sole by sewing, 'as my invention, so far as the sole is concerned, differs materially therefrom.

I claim- 1. The sole having near its outer edge and parallel thereto two triangular lips, arranged at a short distance apart and raised from the material of and extending around the sole, as set forth, in combination with a bootor shoe upper laid against the outer lip' and con neeted to the sole by stitches going through the two lips in their lower parts or through the portion of the sole between them, all being substantially as set forth.

2. As an improved manufacture, a turned shoe or boot having its sole provided with two triangular lips, made in it as described, with one of them near the sole-edge, and the other in rear of and parallel, or about so, to the first, and its upper hearing against the outer of the two lips and connected to the sole by stitehing going through such upper and the lips or the part of the sole between theni, all being substantially as set forth.

FRANOIS MOODY HOYT. 

